ParacetaBol

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Side-effects may include laughter, irritation, self-reflection and unfollowing.

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@Trendulkar I need my coffee.... fermented 😎

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@Akshat_World You can’t blame people for choosing gold when trust is harder to mine.

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If the Chief Election Commissioner cannot ensure that two of his three Commissioners are fully informed about decisions concerning voter registration, deletion and electoral databases, and they have to repeatedly put objections on record, then the question isn't whether there was ‘deliberation’. The question is whether the institution still has public confidence. Sometimes the most democratic thing an office-holder can do is make room for accountability.

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@ravish_journo 14 objections in 10 months, followed by an 8-point note saying everything is perfectly normal. Democracy’s newest feature: agree to disagree, then agree that we agreed.

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@ECISVEEP @airnewsalerts @DDNewsHindi @DDNewslive @PIB_India This is a press note about internal notes explaining that the notes were only notes. At this rate, we’ll need a note explaining the note explaining the notes. 😄

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@KasthuriShankar Maybe she needs a crash course in culture and diversity. Haggling for a discount isn’t a federal offence—especially when accompanied by a polite “please.” It’s called bargaining, not a declaration of war. America reserves those for countries that don’t accept its terms.

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@pepsi Nice try, Pepsi. Happiness doesn’t come with a barcode.😎

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@WhiteHouse Keep Intelligence out please 😎

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@NewsAlgebraIND Justice for Sahil requires finding the truth—not finding a convenient villain.

The student deserved better.
The professor deserves due process.
And education deserves a system that can protect both.

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A student is dead.
A professor is facing an FIR.
A family has lost its only son.
An institution is now defending its handling of the entire episode.

And the truth is still being investigated.

That, in itself, should make us uncomfortable.

If the allegations against the professor are true, the system failed a student who needed protection.

If they are false, the system has failed a professor by allowing an unproven allegation to become a public verdict.

And somewhere between the two is the larger failure of education: a campus where one examination incident can become so overwhelming that a young life is lost.

An IIT should not merely produce engineers. It should have systems capable of recognising distress, handling disciplinary issues with proportion and dignity, protecting students from discrimination, and protecting faculty from trial by accusation.

Justice for Sahil requires finding the truth—not finding a convenient villain.

The student deserved better.
The professor deserves due process.
And education deserves a system that can protect both.

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A student is dead.
A professor is facing an FIR.
A family has lost its only son.
An institution is now defending its handling of the entire episode.

And the truth is still being investigated.

That, in itself, should make us uncomfortable.

If the allegations against the professor are true, the system failed a student who needed protection.

If they are false, the system has failed a professor by allowing an unproven allegation to become a public verdict.

And somewhere between the two is the larger failure of education: a campus where one examination incident can become so overwhelming that a young life is lost.

An IIT should not merely produce engineers. It should have systems capable of recognising distress, handling disciplinary issues with proportion and dignity, protecting students from discrimination, and protecting faculty from trial by accusation.

Justice for Sahil requires finding the truth—not finding a convenient villain.

The student deserved better.
The professor deserves due process.
And education deserves a system that can protect both.

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The kind of talent that makes you stop scrolling

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@realDonaldTrump Maybe leave “intelligence” out of it. You two have never really crossed paths. 😎

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Excellent message.

By @rajshamani

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@GabbbarSingh Merit should open doors; policy shouldn’t decide who gets to feel welcome inside.

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@BBCNews By that logic, should ministers and department officials also be held accountable for every crime committed under their watch? Accountability cuts both ways.

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@uuddlrlrbasic @realDonaldTrump Yes, but there’s an important distinction between restricting press access and stopping journalists from reporting.

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@OJoelsen Closing its eyes doesn’t make the cat disappear. 🐱

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@OJoelsen Ignorance is bliss 😎 Wish you luck Greenland.

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@cnni Good news, Greenland is safe. Bad news: it apparently needed permission to be independent.😎